"It worked!"
Not long after, Xia Ping heard over the phone that Huo Gang and the others had agreed to pay compensation. He smiled faintly and clenched his fists, exhilarated. He had just raked in two hundred billion Federal Coins. What a massive windfall!
Before this, he had risked his life to raid Silver Flood Dragon King's lair and had managed to get five hundred and seventy billion Federal Coins.
But now, all it had taken was a few words to make that group pay him two hundred billion. Calling it a deal with incredible returns was no exaggeration. Even a money-printing machine couldn't earn money this fast.
"I've struck it rich this time."
Xia Ping was extremely pleased with himself. He had brought up three conditions earlier simply to bargain with the Core Students. His real aim had been to get money out of them.
As for the second and third conditions, he hadn't taken them seriously at all.
After all, he wasn't injured in the slightest. He was fit as a fiddle, so why would he agree to postpone the competition?
As for an apology, that was worth even less. To put it bluntly, how much was an apology worth? Could it possibly be worth two hundred billion Federal Coins?!
He cared more about tangible benefits.
Now that they had reached an agreement, he could no longer keep stirring up the matter online. He also had to issue a statement saying that he and Huo Gang's group had reached an understanding.
But Xia Ping had expected as much. Huo Gang and the others were Core Students and Grandmaster Realm powerhouses, with tremendous influence. Making them take a heavy loss was already a good result.
There was no way to leave them with no chance of recovering. This compensation